Jodi Ettenberg

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Jodi Ettenberg

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Jodi Ettenberg was born in Montreal and has been eating her way around the world since April 2008. She is the author of the recently published Food Traveler’s Handbook. She is also the founder of Legal Nomads, which chronicles worldwide travel and food adventures, and is a contributing editor for Longreads. Prior to founding Legal Nomads, Jodi worked for five years as a corporate lawyer in New York City. She frequently speaks about social media strategy, food and travel, and curation. She gets the shakes when she goes too long without eating sticky rice.

What I did in 2025, mostly from bed

Many of you here signed up for Legal Nomads in its early days, back when it was a blog about my round-the-world adventures. Long before it morphed into a business, and certainly well before my life changed dramatically eight years ago. When I first quit my job to travel, the panic of the not-knowing would occasionally creep in. I went from a lock-step career of legal work, where each year salary w

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Published on December 29, 2025 09:57
Average rating: 3.85 · 66 ratings · 10 reviews · 2 distinct works
The Food Traveler's Handbook

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“The confluence of people, smells and tastes that you are privy to merely by eating on the street is very special. And it is not something that can be replicated indoors. If food is a lens through which to see the world, a seat at one of those tiny tables offers the best view.”
Jodi Ettenberg, The Food Traveler’s Handbook

“Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met – and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity.”
Tiziano Terzani, A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East

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Christopher G. Moore Hi Jodi,


Thank you for following me on GoodReads. Tiziano Terzani was an old friend from years ago. What a wonderful spirit that man possessed. You would have loved to have talked with him. Best, Christopher


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